Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.